Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you can not eat.

The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption –pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.